04 December 2008

The Casio Quellotone

Here it is, Mike:
















The Casio MT-46 circuit bent for Quell, features:
- Installed optical "theremin" with accompanying blinky light
- mute/mod switches for Hi-Hat sounds
- 4-way glitch joystick with alien filters and harmonies
- 3 body contacts for bitcrushed BROWN NOTES, special for the Reverend Moquell

There were times I thought this whole thing was wrecked. Up until the last minute, half of the keys weren't even working. At one point I was getting no audio at all -- fearing that I had crossed something hot and blown out a chip. I spent more time fixing things I'd snapped, unsoldered and burnt than I did adding new features! I couldn't resist adding the blinky opto-theremin thing either. The idea is to reflect the blinking *LAZERBEAM* back onto the photocell to make it freak out more.

SO MIKE -- the deal is, you have to post some freakout acid jams for us now. Maybe you can finally record the soundtrack to that new Unicorn-Cardiologist-Outer-Space-Western cartoon drama you've been working so hard on!

4 comments:

antjag said...

Im freaking out. Literally. That is the coolest thing I've seen in a VERY long time. You are a brilliant hero.

Quel said...

you're freaking out? Fer fucks sake, I never imagined that sending my keyboard to Zippy would result in such madness. It's like being the parent of a fat kid and sending your kid to fat camp and being all, like, damn not only are you not so fat, but you gots lasers and shit!!!!! I gotta lie down for a second and process all this. I <3 U FRANK ZIPPA!

Quel said...

Never before has Zippy called me Mike so much. Serious shit is going down.

Dan B said...

He does that when it's 'business'